{"id":280971,"date":"2025-10-06T04:42:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T04:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/280971\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T04:42:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T04:42:19","slug":"the-old-woman-with-the-knife-author-returns-with-dark-tale-of-mind-reading-betrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/280971\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Old Woman With the Knife\u2019 author returns with dark tale of mind-reading, betrayal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/news-p.v1.20251005.d9d4bf15d6f74cc7ae482a70e75eff9b_P1.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Cutting Wound&quot; by Gu Byeong-mo (Munhakdongne Publishing)\"\/>     &#8220;Cutting Wound&#8221; by Gu Byeong-mo (Munhakdongne Publishing)  <\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Cutting Wound&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>By Gu Byeong-mo<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Munhakdongne Publishing <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Gu Byeong-mo, one of Korea\u2019s most imaginative storytellers, returns with &#8220;Cutting Wound,&#8221; a haunting tale of a woman who can \u201cread\u201d another\u2019s mind by touching their wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Orphaned and raised in an institution, she discovers her gift when she presses her hand to a friend\u2019s bleeding cut and suddenly hears a flood of thoughts. Yet she grows up uncertain how to use this power.<\/p>\n<p>That changes when she meets Moon O-eon, a shrewd businessman who immediately grasps its value. He takes her in, gives her a new name, fine clothes and a secluded mansion where no one can find her. At once manipulative and strangely kind, he becomes the first person to show her care.<\/p>\n<p>But when O-eon commits an unforgivable act, her fragile trust shatters. He wants her to read his mind to understand him as only she can. She refuses with a fierce declaration that he will be the one person she will never read.<\/p>\n<p>Part mystery, part unsettling romance, &#8220;Cutting Wound&#8221; builds its tension on this fraught relationship \u2014 a woman who can see into others\u2019 minds, and a man desperate to have his own mind seen.<\/p>\n<p>Gu\u2019s 2013 novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/article\/10503228\" class=\"ix-editor-text-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;The Old Woman with the Knife&#8221;<\/a> was adapted into a stage musical last year and a feature film that premiered this year at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. The novel is available in English, translated by Chi-Young Kim.<\/p>\n<p>hwangdh@heraldcorp.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cutting Wound&#8221; by Gu Byeong-mo (Munhakdongne Publishing) &#8220;Cutting Wound&#8221; By Gu Byeong-mo Munhakdongne Publishing Gu Byeong-mo, one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":280972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,145120,171,145121,145123,145119,67,132,68,145122],"class_list":{"0":"post-280971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-cutting-wound","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-gu-byeong-mo","12":"tag-new-in-korean","13":"tag-the-old-woman-with-the-knife","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-145122"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115325392950563389","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}